Fraternity and
sorority members at Elon received national honors and
recognition during the recent Mid-American Greek Council
Association (MGCA) conference in Chicago.
MGCA is
the premier national leadership conference for fraternity and
sorority governing council officers. Participants in the
conference come from more than 30 U.S. states, and 175
campuses. Elon has attended this annual leadership conference
for the past three years.
The National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC), the governing
council for the five historically African-American
fraternities and sororities at Elon, received the 2008
Overall Council Excellence award and was named the top NPHC
Council in the nation for the third
year in a row. In
addition, the Elon NPHC received recognition for excellence
in membership intake, council management, public
relations, academic achievement, and community
service.
The Panhellenic Council, the governing council for
sororities at Elon, received recognition for excellence in
all eight award categories: membership recruitment; community
service and philanthropy; risk reduction and management; self
governance and judicial affairs; academic achievement;
council management; public relations; and leadership and
educational development. The Elon Panhellenic Council was
also named a finalist (top three campuses) for the 2008
Sutherland Award for Overall Excellence for Panhellenic
Councils. This is the third
year the
council received finalist status.
The Interfraternity Council, the governing council for
fraternities at Elon, was honored by MGCA for their
excellence in academic achievement. This is not the
first time Elon's fraternities have received such an
honor. Last year, the North American Interfraternity
Conference at a special luncheon for academic excellence.
Elon was one of only eight universities nationwide with Greek
organizations where the all-fraternity GPA is at least 0.25
points above the non-fraternity GPA.
Zach Thomas, assistant director of greek life, and Michele
McGraw, the director of recruitment for the Panhellenic
Council and a junior at Elon, were selected from over 36
teams to compete as one of sixteen finalists teams to
participate in the Order of Omega Case Study competition. The
Order of Omega was founded at the University of Miami in the
fall of 1959 by a group of outstanding fraternity men, who
felt that individuals in the Greek community should be
recognized for their commitment to academics, leadership and
service to the community.
